netdev - Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Update documentation for better built-in help with params

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Message-ID: <4B5DD4AF.8050800@hp.com>
Date:	Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:28:15 -0500
From:	Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	greg@...ellic.com, nhorman@...driver.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Update documentation for better built-in help with
 params

David Miller wrote:
> From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:24:49 -0500
> 
>> Update IPv6 documentation to describe how to set parameters when it's
>> built-into the kernel.  Reported by <greg@...ellic.com>.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
> 
> So are you going to also add a mention of this fact to every single
> place in the documentation that talks about some arbitrary module
> option?
> 
> That doesn't make any sense, and neither does this patch.
> 
> It's better to make it more apparent that module options can
> be set on the kernel command line when something is compiled
> statically into the kernel.
> 
> That way it only needs to be explained in one place, not in
> several.

I guess Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt is where such things
live, can I send you a patch for that or does it need to go
through someone else?

-Brian
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